The House of Windsor

Our Kings and Queens series began in 2008 and has explored 600 years of the British Monarchy. It now reaches a most fitting conclusion http://shop.royalmail.com/stamps-collectibles+gifts/stamps-issue-by-issue/icat/cat158/as we come to The House of Windsor in this year of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. This great Royal House began with the name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which was changed to Windsor by George V’s Royal Proclamation in 1917, in order to emphasise the Britishness of the Monarchy at the height of the First World War.